CECILIA DE NOËL

BY

LANOE FALCONER

Author of "Mademoiselle Ixe"

'Through such souls alone,

GOD, stooping, shows sufficient of His Light

For us i' the dark to rise by.'

The Ring and the Book

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1891

All rights reserved

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
DEC 2 1955

COPYRIGHT, 1891,

BY

MACMILLAN & CO.

ROBERT DRUMMOND, ELECTROTYPER AND PRINTER, NEW YORK.

TO MY FRIEND

GERTRUDE IRELAND BLACKBURNE

I DEDICATE THE STUDY, WHICH OWES SO MUCH TO

HER SYMPATHY AND HELP.

LANOE FALCONER